Premont ISD has struggled with attendance, academic performance and mismanaged finances for years, and are now under strict TEA monitoring to get the district back on track and keep the doors open.
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Premont ISD Interim Superintendent Ernest Singleton helps a student on the first day of the Fall 2011 semester. Singleton confirmed rumors and issued a challenge to students.
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The Premont High School football team is pumped up for the first game of the season, a feeling that would be short lived as the home team got routed on the field.
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The decision to cut athletics and other extra-curricular activities was tough, but it bought the district some time.
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Premont thrived in the four decades following the discovery of oil in the 1930s, but when the oil dried up so did the town.
Premont ISD has struggled with low attendance, low test scores and poor finances for years, but when a letter from the TEA came threatening to close the school, everyone knew that something must be done.
